The title of a scientist who studies and/or predicts the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
100
An instrument used to measure the hotness or coldness of the air.
What is a thermometer?
100
One of the largest storms on earth. This powerful storm forms over warm ocean waters and brings strong winds and heavy rain.
What is a hurricane?
100
This season of the year normally gives the southwest it's coldest temperatures and even snow sometimes.
What is winter?
100
Meteorologist identify these with names such as ...cirrus, stratus, cumulus,...
What are clouds?
200
A natural movement of air parallel to or along the ground.
What is wind?
200
This weather instrument is used to measure various types of precipitation
What is a rain gauge?
200
This deadly weather feature forms in thunderstorms and has a column of violently rotating air so strong it can carry away a house
What is a tornado?
200
"Weather" is the term for day-to-day atmospheric conditions. This is the term for long time averages of weather conditions over a location.
What is climate?
200
Every snowflake has this number of sides or points
What is six?
300
These form in the sky when the water vapor in the air condenses from an invisible gas to a liquid.
What are clouds?
300
This expensive weather sensor is used by meteorologist to track thunderstorms and evaluate their strength
What is a RADAR?
300
This potentially deadly result often occurs when heavy rain falls in a short amount of time over the same area
What is a flash flood?
300
The southwest U.S. receives half of it's rain during this "season" from late June through September. It is marked by winds turning southerly and tropical moisture moving into the region.
What is monsoon season?
300
A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall resulting in a shortage of water and very dry conditions
What is a drought?
400
Because air molecules have weight, the air in the atmosphere exerts this force on all things at the earth's surface
What is atmospheric pressure?
400
This sensor of the earth's atmosphere floats in space and allows meteorologist to see clouds
What is a satellite?
400
This atmospheric killer is always associated with a thunderstorm. It is often referred to as a flash or a stroke.
What is lightning?
400
The climate classification of our dry southwest climate which supports very little vegetation on less than 10 inches of rain each year.
What is a desert climate?
400
A rapid expansion of the air caused by an instantaneous heating of the air to over 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit causes this sometime startling weather phenomena
What is thunder?
500
The difference, from location to location, in this measurable atmospheric quality drives ALL weather
What is temperature?
500
This weather instrument is used to record the speed of the wind
What is an anemometer?
500
Tall thunderstorms can push raindrops very high where they freeze. After they grow large and heavy they fall to the ground as these dangerous irregular lumps of ice
What is hail?
500
This naturally occurring atmospheric gas is at the center of the Global Warming/Climate Change debate due to it's heat holding abilities and our increased emissions of it
What is carbon dioxide?
500
The name of the U.S. government agency responsible for issuing weather warnings